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Highlights

  • Insight Net is made up of more than 100 private, public, and academic partners who help modernize CDC’s support for state and local public health leaders.
  • CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics has awarded more than $100 million to partners who are technologically advancing the use of outbreak data to control infectious disease spread.
Image of the various components of the network. Innovation: three colleagues work together to develop new technology. Integration: three colleagues work together to test the new technology from the Innovation pipeline. They test for quality assurance at a small locality. Implementation: three colleagues work together to deploy new quality assure technology across states or a larger area.

Conceptual illustration of CFA's partners working to detect and control an infectious disease outbreak.

What does Insight Net do?

Insight Net, established in 2023 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA), is building modeling and analytic capacity in health departments across the country. This network focuses on training, analytical tool development, and advancing the analysis and use of data about infectious disease spread. The network brings together more than 100 academic and private entities, and state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) health departments in a collaborative partnership, The network is structured into three categories, Innovators, Integrators, and Implementers, who develop, test, and implement forward-thinking outbreak analytic solutions for CDC, health departments, and other decision-makers across the country.

The tools and methods that Insight Net develops will aid in anticipating infectious disease outbreaks, empowering public health leaders to make more informed decisions and take action to protect their communities during public health emergencies.

Who is included in the network?

At the core of Insight Net are 13 partners funded through the CFA’s Centers for Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling cooperative agreement. This group of 13 collaborates with more than 100 additional state, local, private, public, and academic partners across 30 states, Puerto Rico, and Guam.

How does Insight Net support disease forecasting?

Insight Net invests in transforming the country’s analytic capacities in infectious disease outbreaks by combining tools like machine learning and artificial intelligence with the best available technologies and academic research. To date, CFA has awarded more than $100 million to Insight Net partners through the cooperative agreement. These partners collaborate with STLT public health leaders to understand their jurisdictions’ needs and use infectious disease outbreak data to drive more precise life-saving decisions during public health emergencies.

When Insight Net is fully funded, it is projected to be CDC’s largest single investment to scale up infectious disease outbreak modeling and forecasting.